Tuesday, November 19th, 2013Puxi Campus: Room TBD8:15am - 3:00pm (or sooner if we get through it all!)


Minutes 11-19-13

Agenda Items: (Please list item and your name)

  • Celebrations - both personal and tech related - all
  • Update and Action Plan for Edublogs transition - Simon P. and all
  • Review of Budget Requests by Division - Amanda and all
  • Discussion of remaining WASC prompts - Amanda and all

  • Replacement of ES laptops and desktops and minis-Jeff
  • Reallocating replaced machines into grades 2 & 3-Jeff

  • CASPER & existing MacBooks (Student & staff?) - Bobby
  • LMS action/decision? -Bobby

Concerns:

Must purchase every 4 (recommend every 3 years) - NO: Number 1 (below) is the expectation. We are not recommending that approval for student use at SAS be based on age or warranty status of the MacBook.
  1. The MacBook mut be using most current version operating system or most recent previous one (1) version earlier.
  2. Must provide a USB HDD for purposes of running Time Machine.
  3. Students must maintain the computer in proper operating condition (i.e. functional and without any damage preventing proper operation)
  4. Student computers must meet and maintain minimum software requirements*
  5. Loaner computers are for the duration of repairs required (up to a maximum period of one-week)
  6. Procedures will be established for printing costs
  7. AUP needs to include expectations that all users will use fully legal and licensed software.

*minimum software requirements (DRAFT)
  • Operating System (as specified above)
  • iLife 11
  • iWork Pages
  • iWork Keynote
  • MS Office 2011 for Mac
  • Adobe Acrobat Pro (if the price point is appropriate - Simon M.?)
  • Adobe Photoshop (if the price point is appropriate - Simon M.?)